| 单词 | wittily |
| 例句 | One of them riffs wittily on the associations between woman and vessel, vessel and body. Female sculptors, full of humor and verve, prove to be way more than 'All Right' 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “I began to write less discursively, more puzzlingly, I suppose less wittily,” he told The Paris Review. John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z A medicine show features hip-hop from men in wheelchairs and their nurses; a fight scene is wittily staged in a bathhouse; a couple of bowling sequences would fit snugly in “The Big Lebowski.” Movie Review: Surreal Song and Dance in ‘The Rooftop’ 2013-07-19T00:29:42Z The last sequence — it’s the one involving hoops that are stacked ever higher — is wittily accompanied by the projection of an EKG-style pulse line, with accompanying beeps. | 'Traces': Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!) 2011-08-10T02:01:08Z Their colorful, geometric compositions wittily conjure flags, signs, building facades and furniture, especially bookshelves or cabinets. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z It is a captivating, wittily androgynous performance that ushers Nixon to the threshold of stardom. As You Like It – review 2013-04-25T17:02:13Z Hofmannsthal’s outline suggests that he intended to treat the material wittily and with a light touch; the opera’s subtitle is “A Cheerful Mythology in Three Acts.” Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z This works wittily in one particular scene where the Duchess's Cardinal brother contrives to cavort with his mistress through the iron grille of the confessional. The Duchess of Malfi ? review 2010-10-20T20:31:00Z But surely scientists aren’t the only community that can step up wittily for its cause. Style Invitational Week 1225: The Ideas of March 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Earlier in the film the illusion of a West Coast paradise is wittily acknowledged as Pat watches a film clip of the song “Bali Hai” from the movie version of “South Pacific” on television. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z Segal wittily describes the eagle-eyed sharpness of a community where nothing goes unnoticed, and Adam's passage to maturity is painfully documented, but the novel inevitably lacks the gravity and restraint of Wharton's masterpiece. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z It's a terrific mix of highbrow and lowbrow: niftily plotted, wittily edited, brilliantly performed, and casually offensive. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z In an improvised cameo, Mr. Curran moves in response to a riff by Mr. West, and his puckish dance wittily physicalizes the jazz of Mr. West’s thoughts. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z And, completing the trio of lead roles, Gavin Creel as Elder Price wittily conveys the implacable self-regard and gleaming teeth of the door-to-door religious salesman. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z So, too, are the individual displays of artefacts, elegantly, even wittily, arranged in beautifully designed cases. Museums should appeal to the heart 2010-06-28T09:59:00Z It wittily incorporates a "nana na na" representation of the Nokia theme as if to announce, whisper who dare, that women can be, in the best sense, musically sharp. Notes from the musical margins 2011-03-13T00:04:00Z “The Four Temperaments” has been rehearsed to show a few aspects I haven’t seen in recent years, with male chivalry to women wittily reaccentuated. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z In his compositions, Mr. Tronzo is well aware of slide guitar’s deep association with blues and country — aware enough both to hint at them and craftily, wittily to evade them, making abstruse leaps sound down-home. Music Review: Fred Frith and Nels Cline Create New Soundscapes 2014-01-19T22:12:56Z In “The Wives of the Poets” Susan de Sola reflects on errant husbands in a wittily infectious singsong: “The wives of the poets,/ they never complain./ They know they are married/ to drama and pain.” Review | How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The group play wittily with imagery from their native South Korea: grey military men, the gaudiness of Gangnam Style. Breakin' Convention – review 2013-05-06T16:12:40Z But Cattrall also wittily highlights Cleopatra's equivocal relationship with Antony, one which blends sexual fascination with political exasperation. Antony and Cleopatra - review 2010-10-15T00:54:00Z His hugely successful TV show, Two and a Half Men, for which he was paid almost $2m an episode, mined this reputation with his character, the wittily hedonistic, Charlie Harper. Charlie Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth sinks star live in Detroit 2011-04-03T15:24:42Z Ash's Tim Wheeler and girlfriend Emmy the Great – Emma-Lee Moss – have invited the double-edged sword of seasonal ubiquity after last year releasing a whole album of wittily unconventional Yuletide originals and reconfigured standards. Tim Wheeler and Emmy the Great – review 2012-12-18T18:58:38Z My body practically quivers with wondering, while the guys from “SportsCenter” chat wittily away on the television. A Husband for Home; a Wife for Away 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Cage had become fascinated by Erik Satie, the then-obscure, feisty French composer who wittily defied the German deification of structural logic. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Today her books, such as the wittily macabre fantasy “The Sorrows of Satan,” are somewhat undeservedly forgotten. Review | The 19th-century book that helps us understand the allure — and perils — of social media 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Drawing on the script Dickens originally adapted for this purpose, ISC co-founder David Melville re-creates one of those performances, wittily engaging the audience as Dickens even as he conjures up the beloved story. The 99-Seat Beat: A twist on Dickens, a 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Objects of all kinds were brought in, inserted and returned in due course, with ingeniously improvised, wittily deconstructive facsimiles. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z As spotlights dance on the stage and ceiling, Mr. Dinwiddie is wittily precise in his characterization and movement, which tap into the animal within the man. Dance Review: Andrew Dinwiddie and Michelle Ellsworth at Danspace Project 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z The story is simple — it’s the usual smackdown with boasts, quips and a can of spinach — but the film is a Technicolor marvel with liquid animation, vibrant critters and wittily choreographed bits. Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Gaignard’s approach is not narrative, didactic or overtly political; she wittily employs symbols a viewer understands on a visceral level, even as a more explicit meaning remains elusive. An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z What linked Ms. Previn to the flourishing singer-songwriter movement were her starkly autobiographical lyrics, in which she described mental instability, fears and fantasies, sometimes wittily and at other times with a blunt, almost scary directness. Dory Previn, as Portrayed by Kate Dimbleby 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Face cloaked by a jaunty hat and wearing half a suit jacket that works like an anatomical cutaway, Rachel McLaren wittily travels on a journey to selfhood, a delicate mini-revelation of its own. Alvin Ailey troupe delivers 'Revelations' old and new 2011-03-26T23:23:04Z This is not an artist who noodles over his Mac, wittily tweaking images with state-of-the-art software. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-13T20:50:00Z It's a cleverly plotted film, wittily mocking the French legal system, conventional morality and horrors of small-town life. La Poison 2013-03-03T00:05:25Z The Coke ad which then played was Weiner wittily acknowledging how fast the corporate world – which created ‘Don Draper’ – would subsume the counter-culture. Mad Men: what does the final scene mean? (Warning: spoilers) 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Their full-evening show Chase the Dream is fast, slick and wittily packaged. Chase the Dream; Tales of Beatrix Potter ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:16Z It is not, directly, the disaster of ecocide; she wittily, hopefully defines the play’s time period as “Early Anthropocene” — not “Late.” Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z It’s a question posed by “Enlightened,” an HBO series that begins on Monday and that among other things wittily sends up the self-actualization movement. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z Porter, in the Collected Poems, wittily acknowledged the receipt of a grant, for which, at the age of 70, "I am especially grateful ... at such a crucial stage in my career as a writer". Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z There’s a clip in this documentary, about the Texas-based columnist Molly Ivins famous for wittily skewering politicians, in which she tells a story about writing for this newspaper. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Breakthrough’ and ‘Surviving R. Kelly Part II’ 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Dan's brain, as the lyrics of the title song "Up Here" wittily elaborate, is made more crowded by "Poetry, the pledge of allegiance/Piety, anxiety, reptilian instincts/Biology, ontology, the names of the Smurfs." 'Frozen' team premieres 'Up Here,' a quirky, pleasing, undercooked musical 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Difficult to choose one favourite, but I loved Stewart Riddick's bird's-eye perspective of a puppet on the Royal Mile, and Piglicker sums up the festival more wittily than a thousand standup comedians. Edinburgh festival: week two roundup 2011-08-22T15:29:22Z Staged on a handsome set by Wilson Chin that wittily uses a quartet of staircases in the same general shape as DNA spirals, “Informed Consent” has some speechy moments. Review: ‘Informed Consent’ Tests the Ethics of Genetic Research 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The effects are ambitious, and one spectacular urban catastrophe wittily concludes with a collapsing wall nudging a Newton's cradle just hard enough to set it in motion. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-11T14:30:00Z Here she wittily recast it as a song mocking a certain presidential candidate who loves the spotlight. Review: Kristin Chenoweth, That Perky Performer With the Powerhouse Pipes 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z People recognise his observations and experiences, Widdicombe articulates wittily things they might have felt themselves. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: Easyjet gags get a hip-hop upgrade 2012-08-08T15:15:16Z Still others, including one that wittily uses a bench as a pedestal, skew toward art. Last Chance: Charlotte Posenenske Installation at Artists Space 2010-08-09T22:26:00Z The Question of Instrument wittily examines Gould's preference for the piano over the harpsichord. Glenn Gould Plays Bach – DVD review 2012-12-13T17:28:31Z He seems wonderfully and wittily uninhibited, if also irksomely unedited. Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z The middle word of the title is wittily crossed out on the book’s cover and opening page, as if to imply that the gender of those included is irrelevant. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z One wittily shot sequence cuts between all the bits of sustenance and transport they rely on as they traverse the country seeking killers to interview, from diner coffee to Alka-Seltzer to Trans World Airlines flights. Netflix’s 'Mindhunter' Is the Perfect Crime Drama for Our Times 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Wilson, though he writes wittily about various outré Fang performance pieces, resists putting too much emphasis on the family gimmick. Books of The Times: Mom and Dad and the Two Kids They Damage 2011-08-03T22:00:29Z Carroll can be charming when playing the role of professor, but behind bars he isn’t wittily disarming; he is a thuggish bully with soulless eyes. Television Review: ‘The Following,’ Starring Kevin Bacon, on Fox 2013-01-20T20:35:11Z Maybe there was a time when painting a wittily satirical or cheekily rude picture or comment on a wall was genuinely disruptive and shocking. Street art is dying ? and it's our fault 2011-08-25T15:04:58Z The considerably lower-budgeted “Rubber” wittily makes do with a single — and ferociously single-minded — car tire. | 'Rubber': The Tread Life on This Tire Is Something Else 2011-03-31T22:24:37Z “Glacial Decoy” was Ms. Brown’s first piece for the proscenium, and it was wittily designed so that its dancers feed in from the wings to blur the stage’s borders. Review: Stephen Petronio Company Revives ‘Glacial Decoy,’ With Its Supple Sylphs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z With a reputation as a savage but wittily entertaining provocateur, Norris treads confidently into the wilds of political incorrectness in his work, shredding apart what he views as societal hypocrisy. Norris wins Pulitzer for 'Clybourne Park' 2011-04-18T19:09:00Z That was the guy who wisely and wittily observed that divorce should be celebrated because "no good marriage ever ended in divorce." Louis C.K. is back, and it's bad: Leaked stand-up set shows he's lost more than his reputation 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Where the show soars is in its pastiche production numbers, which wittily evoke 1980s MTV videos. Critic’s Notebook: London’s Dark Musicals ‘American Psycho’ and ‘Stephen Ward’ 2014-01-20T18:23:32Z Knussen, in an email interview, was wittily forthcoming about Britten and the concert. Q&A with composer/conductor Oliver Knussen 2011-11-10T22:22:05Z Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z I'm in the kitchen, peeling parsnips and thinking about where a blogpost about how the is helping writers in their research might wittily commence. Wikipedia is the non-fiction writer's best friend 2011-01-17T11:14:36Z The students, ranging from small to tall, lash out with military precision as choreographer Byron Easley marches the gang into formations that sometimes wittily flash the letters. Review | The revolting children have comic bite in ‘Matilda the Musical’ 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z A very enjoyable, smart, fluent comedy with wittily managed moments of sadness and bittersweet regret … This is terrifically assured work from Judd Apatow. What are the best and worst films you've seen recently? 2013-02-18T13:24:45Z Throughout, Boo writes beautifully and, given her subject, surprisingly wittily. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z Their youth made the work’s wittily developed vision of romance as a matter of somersaults and cartwheels feel fresh and childlike, rather than gymnastic. Review: In Juilliard Dances Repertory, the Past Is a Path 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This means, as Brotton wittily points out, that it belongs to "a genre of map unique in the history of cartography that eagerly anticipates and welcomes its own annihilation". A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z A musician in flight from London, he loiters in his family's mouldering country home: Tom Scutt's design wittily conjures up the grubbiness, the antlers on the wall, the superfluous rugs. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z Like a lot of musclemen, Mr. Tatum can look almost captive to his body, which makes his grace all the more pleasurable, as in a wittily choreographed fight that’s part jitterbug dance-off, part wrestling match. ’22 Jump Street’ Puts Cops on Campus 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z This slightly cubic orb in fine green straw is pierced by a cylinder: a hatpin wittily exaggerated to the scale of a bolt. Art Review: Hats, by Stephen Jones, at Bard Graduate Center - Review 2011-09-22T22:03:10Z The overwhelming emphasis is on team Trojan, presented as Native Americans, whose tribal gear wittily includes backpacks that resemble ancient statuary. Review: ‘Cry, Trojans!’ Is the Wooster Group’s Take on ‘Troilus and Cressida’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Where to Invade Next,” is a sprawling, didactic polemic wittily disguised as a European travelogue. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s remarkable how brightly and wittily they hold up today. Streaming: curate your own Spike Jonze mini-season 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Celia Adams wittily turns the domineering Nancy Blackett into a tomboy tearaway whom you can easily foresee turning into the local Tory candidate. Swallows and Amazons ? review 2010-12-08T21:30:00Z Things begin wittily enough with a sequence in which microphones, cymbals and guitars behave as if infected by poltergeists. Micro 2010-04-14T21:05:00Z Without descending into base camp, Carvel even manages to wittily feminise a character whom Dahl portrayed as almost doggedly masculine. Matilda ? review 2010-12-10T00:06:00Z Joe’s playing is energetic and serene, and it carries him into a zone that is wittily literalized as an area between Earth and the spirit world. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Or wittily constructed puns about what a total waste of lungs and a heart you are. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Just like the original operetta, and as wittily done with as light a touch. The Mikado 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Still, stories by Roxane Gay and Brandon Taylor each stayed with me after reading: Gay elegantly writes about the depths — the emotional plunge — of kink; Taylor wittily moves through its complications. ‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z “And she has a spontaneity that’s very unusual, so you can throw anything at her, and she will respond to it very originally and very wittily, immediately and completely truthfully.” Did Daisy Haggard Create the Next ‘Fleabag’? Not Exactly 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z This is a memoir of a fashion designer in the 1930s and Hawes’s critique of the fashion industry is blunt, sharp and wittily observed. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Chaban so wittily puts it, “Outside, the house looks like something dropped from the heavens. Assuming God was really into Legos.” In defense of the “ugliest house in Queens” 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In the series’ wittily perverse take on the circle of life, these machines keep human bodies — Anderson’s included — imprisoned in goo-filled vats, using the energy from these meat puppets to power the Matrix. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Hawkes is entirely convincing in his portrayal of a man who is by turns vulnerable, wittily self-lacerating, charming and erudite. Movie Review: ‘The Sessions,’ With John Hawkes and Helen Hunt 2012-10-18T22:04:26Z But Mr. Caine can be wittily self-deprecating in describing the places he’s been. Books of The Times: What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa 2010-10-24T21:54:00Z Mr. Sommer’s wittily appalled Bradley needs to be a shade more menacing for the second act curtain scene to unsettle as it should. Review: In Shepard’s ‘Buried Child,’ a Father and Family Dissolve Into Darkness 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The story is clever, wittily told and bristles with spiky humor — and it could quite possibly become a new favorite among schoolchildren. ArtsBeat: Aldous Huxley's Brave New Storybook 2011-03-03T21:25:22Z First published in France, it wittily explores the disconnect between house cats’ sedentary ways and the mostly untapped physical prowess they’ve inherited from their big, bad, feral ancestors. Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z And Lizzy is still the bright second daughter — although now almost twice as old as her Austen original — wittily observing all these personalities while navigating the cross-currents of her own heart. ‘Eligible’: A modern retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z With Moss’s guidance, they both leap wittily from animation to three dimensions. Review | Judy and Mickey would have loved the TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ — 2021’s answer to ‘Let’s put on a show!’ 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z “Beautiful Ruins” also includes wittily wrought excerpts from its various characters’ writings, among them a novel, a memoir, a play and a movie pitch. Books of The Times: ‘Beautiful Ruins’ by Jess Walter 2012-06-07T19:21:16Z “Fifty Shades” may have begun as “Twilight” fan fiction, but Ms. Taylor-Johnson wittily notes its kinship with “The Devil Wears Prada.” Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The series' regular cinematographer, Dariusz Wolski, captures the cityscapes wittily and makes the most of real locations from the city center to the venerable naval museum at Greenwich. Penelope Cruz adds spice to enjoyable "Pirates 4" 2011-05-12T15:28:37Z Set largely in and around a house nestled in the woods, Sciamma’s Lilliputian tour de force is a wittily modern fairy tale and model of elegant narrative economy. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Stewart after all, built his popularity and stature by wittily skewering politicians and journalists of all stripes, without fear, favor or deference. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Access and the Plight of the Political Comedian 2010-10-28T10:54:00Z The crisply compressed later project zips along as Maurice Chevalier and company wittily express their worldliness and worries in couplets and song. A Director?s Toughest Competition 2011-03-11T05:40:21Z The geometries of stage space, again and again, became a delight, with left and right, front and back, wittily opposed. Lil Buck and Michelle Dorrance Dance Enliven Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The play’s lively world premier staging by Cameron Watson for Rogue Machine Theatre wittily envisions a bankrupt middle-class dream as a TV game show with unknown rules, in which nothing is fair. Where the middle-class dream turns into the world's worst game show 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Why are our mundane adventures not so wittily encapsulated? Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z But there’s so much to look at in the movie — from the wittily designed creatures to the shocks of bilious green and purple — that the battles quickly fade. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The result was simple, built on the retro American dishes that the chef, Thomas Keller, once wittily reimagined as high culture and maxed out to total extravagance. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But most reviewers concurred that the new musical is a great deal of fun, helped along by the wittily inventive, hugely varied dances that characterize Hunter’s style. ‘The Doors Didn’t Open Easily’ on Her Path to ‘Cinderella’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Just how difficult this will be is wittily illuminated in one of the show’s most engaging musical sequences, “A Brief History of Climate Summits.” Theater Review: ‘The Great Immensity’ Gives Environmentalism Its Own Lyrics 2014-04-25T02:00:01Z One shining exception is Agony, which wittily punctures the pretensions of two popinjay princes and is excellently delivered by Simon Thomas and Michael Xavier. Into the Woods 2010-08-17T22:30:00Z It's a wittily beguiling performance but, in the end, one that transforms the play into a hypnotic star-turn. Twelfth Night/Richard III – review 2012-11-18T16:00:01Z It’s a beautifully absurd moment in a movie that wittily points to and sometimes upends its narrative. Movie Review: ‘Le Grand Amour’ by Pierre Etaix 2012-10-18T23:49:11Z Slyly and wittily, he analyzes political events in Shakespeare’s world in terms of our own experience. What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In many ways, the musicians are extrapolating the heritage of tropicália, the 1960s movement that self-consciously and wittily modernized Brazilian pop. Music Review: ‘Brazilian Explorative Music,’ a Concert of Experimentation 2014-01-16T23:21:55Z A simple strapless gown in black textured wool, while hardly suitable for combat, was wittily marked with an air-force style insignia over the decolletage. Ralph Lauren's new collection evokes 19th century Russia, France 2013-02-15T17:04:16Z The room where Jeff and other inmates are observed after dosing wittily resembles a talk show set, with yellow easy chairs. ‘Spiderhead’ Review: Prisoners of the Mind 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “Beowulf” is wittily reimagined as a feminist parody of suburban sanctimony, with a lesser role for the epic’s hero, incarnated here as ex-Marine Ben Woolf. 50 notable works of fiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Speaking of Siegfried, Ross himself wittily concludes, that “stupidity is his tragic flaw.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z The new Esquire series, wittily titled “The Short Game,” follows 10 golfers, ages 7 and 8, as they compete in a tournament circuit, their “daddy caddies” by their side. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z In the meantime, if you want to hear from experts, concisely, wittily, knowledgeably and without interruption, there are always books. Are university lectures doomed? 2013-05-05T08:00:04Z It’s largely Robbins exploring the possibilities of two men and a woman, à la Balanchine’s Stravinsky ballet “Agon,” but in his own playful way, wittily visualizing the character of the music. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The flimsiness of protections for historic interiors was wittily underscored when drilling from an upper floor of the Seagram Building briefly interrupted the proceedings. Four Seasons Restaurant Auction Tops $4.1 Million 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z That curls up slightly, in the corner, wittily, satirically ... TV review: Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip – An Emotional History of Britain; Cuckoo 2012-10-02T21:35:01Z In films like “In Fabric” and “The Duke of Burgundy,” he pays homage to fringe genre cinema of the past, while wittily winking at contemporary anxieties. ‘Flux Gourmet,’ ‘The Meddler’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Woody telegraphs this information wittily using a Playskool microphone toy – through a minor gag in which he reminds the toys to pick a moving buddy. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Joseph's diary-style monologues are at once impassioned, dizzyingly metaphorical and wittily self-effacing. Going green in black America at heart of Marc Bamuthi Joseph work 2012-05-31T23:32:14Z Work, her debut single here, wittily recounted some of that journey in a hardcore hip-hop vocabulary. The Strypes, DJ Khaled, MØ: this week's new tracks 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z Rarely, though, have they been more wittily skewered from the stage. Theater Review: ‘Serious Money,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-07-13T22:03:45Z The irritations and ennui that set in during unstructured play time for grown-ups are wittily conveyed, as is the sense of social selves melting into primitivism. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z But it is wittily oblique, as when Heloise jokingly holds out her wrists toward Tom, a vice cop who is one of her carefully cultivated allies. Books of The Times: ‘And When She Was Good’ by Laura Lippman 2012-08-01T20:07:25Z It also comes with wittily jazzy inflections of the pelvis and torso that point up special features of Mozart’s timing. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z This concern is wittily reiterated by the fact that Mr. McAllister’s own stretchers are quite shallow, so that his canvases sit abnormally close to the wall. Art in Review: JOHN MCALLISTER: ?Damned Sparkling Pomp? 2011-10-20T18:54:20Z One of these wittily corrosive texts is thought to be an unflattering portrait of the pope of Surrealism, André Breton, with whom Hugnet had had a falling out. Art Review: Georges Hugnet?s ?Spumifers? at Ubu Gallery - Review 2012-01-05T22:30:33Z In her popular films, novels, plays, in her blog posts and essays for major publications, the younger Ephron wrote unpretentiously, wittily, entertainingly about her own life and times. ‘The MOST of Nora Ephron:’ everything for the Ephron fan 2013-12-18T23:03:05Z Not only are these imaginary tribes of women wittily conceived, but they also remind us of motherhood’s shared experiences: the changing bodies, disrupted sleep schedules and tiny potentates demanding macaroni again and again. Review | In ‘Nightbitch,’ a listless mother turns feral 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z What also registers quite wittily in this production is that the exaggerated shape of its title character was exactly what fashionable European women once aspired to in their dress. Review: ‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z One large drawing here is presented on a tilted wood platform covered in printed fabric; it seems wittily matted as if awaiting a giant frame, conjuring some kind of summer-camp project. Art in Review: REE MORTON: ?Selected Works, 1968-1973? 2011-02-24T21:15:13Z It connects emotionally with the audience, and is wittily written and vividly performed. Di and Viv and Rose – review 2013-01-24T17:46:01Z "People haven't written this wittily for women really since that era. It's a fascinating thing to see that on the page and celebrated." Donmar set for all-female Henry IV 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s also not “Shakespeare in Love”; it won’t dazzle you with quick references, wittily deployed Shakespearean lines and so on. Review: ‘Still Star-Crossed’ Goes Beyond Romeo and Juliet 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z A recurring character named Doug seems to suffer a plethora of problems with his mother, wives, girlfriends, job and more — all of them wittily dissected. Uncle Bonsai resurfaces with trademark melodies, wit intact 2010-05-07T00:03:00Z On the other hand, the public focus on Mrs. Obama’s arms is wittily parsed here. 2010-02-11T23:23:00Z The chorus, like the orchestra, was adroit, even in the Latin Quarter chaos of Act II. Best in the cast was the bass-baritone Christian Van Horn, his Colline solidly, capaciously and wittily sung. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: DreamWorks II Distribution Co Politics was a dirty business even in the 19th century, and even when changing history for the better, as the best moments of Lincoln wittily and elegantly prove. Lincoln – first look review 2012-10-09T09:32:01Z The ingredients are in place for a very enjoyable, smart, fluent comedy with wittily managed moments of sadness and bittersweet regret. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z Then it was a solo for the Apollonian ballet star David Hallberg that wittily played with the shortness of each of Britten’s Twelve Variations for piano and against an expectation of virtuosity. Review: Mark Morris’s Egalitarian Ethos and Top-Class Art 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z That, at least, is the point of view in “Evening’s Empire,” a rock novel by Bill Flanagan as long as a Yes concept album and as wittily observed as a Kinks song. The Day the Music Died 2010-02-27T05:51:00Z These two wittily paired shows by Seattle painters pit humanity’s threats to nature against nature’s threats to humanity. October galleries: Apocalypse now 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The title of her Hollywood memoir — wittily, fittingly — is “Off With Their Heads.” You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Its chief points are verbal, and — despite the considerable pathos at the piece’s heart — so shrewdly, wittily made that the audience laughed with recognition as it followed his quest. Dance Review: ‘Breakin’ Convention’ Shows a New York Style’s Diversity 2013-06-17T21:38:11Z More than being wittily offhand, they were sympathetic to the idea of feeling good. On the Runway Blog: That Positive Feeling, and Why It’s Shared 2014-01-24T22:11:25Z Christopher Oram's designs also wittily use the framework and painted flats of a Pollock's Toy Theatre to whisk us back into the worlds of Neverland and Wonderland. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z The jovial “Bulla fulminante,” for example, wittily addresses the topic of papal corruption. Music in Review 2011-01-24T23:22:42Z He enjoys watching “authority wittily subverted by the water, which has robbed every imperious command of its meaning.” Books of The Times: ?Driving Home,? by Jonathan Raban - Review 2011-09-15T21:30:23Z The energy of the room is somehow off balance; the book, by Ms. Holland with Gary William Friedman, goes only skin deep, and not wittily. Theater Review: In ‘Love, Linda,’ Stevie Holland Imagines Mrs. Cole Porter 2013-12-18T15:38:23Z His Falstaff, not only wittily acted and fully formed, was astonishingly well sung. Giuseppe Taddei, Latecomer to the Met, Dies at 93 2010-06-04T05:43:00Z But convincingly, wittily depicting the terrible ordinariness of it? Is there a cure for "The Big C's" cheeriness? 2011-06-26T15:01:00Z Mr. Rhode, a South African artist born in 1976, combines drawing, photography, video and performance — sometimes wittily, sometimes movingly, often both. Review: Robin Rhode Takes Schoenberg’s ‘Erwartung’ to the Street (Broadway, No Less) 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z His exquisitely detailed paintings wittily hint that artists are the greatest heroes. Review | In the galleries: An artist’s modern visions of a retro cartoon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But she wittily captured the changing fortunes of women in the modern world. Fay Weldon obituary: Shrewd, mischievous and outspoken 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z At times “Spoiler Alert” feels like an edgy, clever film that plays wittily on the main character’s lifelong obsession with TV. New movies in Seattle-area theaters this week: ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Spoiler Alert’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Brown wittily masters the art of pastoral bluster; Hall is simply stunning as a woman who sees the painful truth about her marriage — and defies anyone to criticize her for sticking it out. The best movie performances of 2022 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Neuroscientist Patrick House instead sketches an outline for how we might look at who we are from the inside out through wittily rendered observations plucked from neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and beyond. Uncertainty Can Speed Up Climate Action 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Exterior becomes interior — or verso becomes recto — in Leedham’s wittily jumbled tableaux. Review | In the galleries: Recognizing our environmental emergencies 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z That’s one of the wittily loopy loops of “A Strange Loop,” which illuminates with unbridled comic energy the desires, insecurities, aspirations and demons of a young, queer Black man. Review | ‘A Strange Loop’ is Broadway’s best new musical 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Her later, unpublished World War II memoir wittily called this period “Over Here, Over Here.” In Seattle TV’s earliest years, Ruth Prins and ‘Wunda Wunda’ touched the youngest of hearts — indelibly 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z There may be hard manual labor and a little self-flagellation, but sardonic laughter sometimes erupts within these walls, as do wittily barbed negotiations over money. Review: Sexy, satirical and spiritual, 'Benedetta' shows a lesbian nun's life is not so wimple 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The performances — especially by lead actor Lee — are fantastic, and the production design is whimsically creepy, wittily satirical and memorably distinctive. Perspective | Why does ‘Squid Game’ resonate so well in the U.S.? It may be its portrayal of economic despair. 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z In a review for The Times, Sheila Benson lauded the film’s “unqualified pleasure,” adding, “it’s at once hip and romantic; wittily sophisticated and unabashedly affectionate; a love poem to all New York.” Joan Micklin Silver, director of 'Hester Street' and 'Crossing Delancey,' dies at 85 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z The movie clicked in no small part because, like most Disney cartoons, it made no claim to realism; it was a wittily stylized object, incongruous on the page but deft and disarming in the execution. Review: Disney's live-action remake of 'Mulan' has more swords and sorcery but less magic 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z She sang about her life and wittily externalised her inner monologue; sultry and carnal, she was palpably in thrall to her raw yet knowing self-penned songs. Amy Winehouse, Glastonbury 2004: coaxing rainbows from the clouds 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z A fearless hero, Valdés wittily embodies both a strong sense of patriotism and the “humor criollo” that laughs at local vicissitudes. Elpidio Valdés creator Juan Padrón was Cuba's Walt Disney. His death brings tributes 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Look up: The space is wittily lit with 102 light bulbs, 25 watts each. The 4 best things restaurant critic Bethany Jean Clement ate in Seattle this month 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z She stridently, and often wittily, counters internet trolls. ‘Try to keep up’: how Ocasio-Cortez upended politics her first year in office 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z A wittily morose, acerbic lyricist, Morrissey eagerly harnessed the British music press’s love of a good quote, channeling outrage as a marketing tool. Morrissey is anti-immigrant and backs a white nationalist political party. Why don't fans care? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In a pair of ceramic plates, hung side by side, the L.A.-based Pignolet wittily demarcates what little space is allotted for women’s voices between the command of “Shhh” and the criticism “Shrill.” Review: Don't tell Elyse Pignolet to 'calm down.' How one artist answers sexism with a roar 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Barbara Ling’s production design is a wittily intricate treasure trove of fake movie memorabilia, though there’s some real stuff in the mix too. Quentin Tarantino shocks Cannes again with epic ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’ 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z He wittily skewered acquaintances and seemed always conscious of his physical allure. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z He is also a fan of art history who refers wittily to Botticelli, Rubens and Giotto. Masters and machines: the best art and architecture of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Hitchens drew adoration for his capacity to quickly and wittily dismiss an opponent in an argument. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z And yet they are too wittily handled for easy moralising. Tommy Orange’s debut novel is a work of defiance and recovery 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z His charm works and, in Dortmund, he convinced me “this is a very special club – a workers’ club” as he railed, wittily, against Bayern’s economic powerhouse. Joker, thinker, friend, dictator: the many faces of Jürgen Klopp 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The extended scenes of comic banter, no less than the wittily executed action sequences, are master classes in multitasking. 'Avengers: Infinity War': a rousing Marvel mash-up, or a truly epic tease? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z An ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily, combined with numeracy and curiosity, matter more than prior experience. Business writer 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Following the fortunes of Stanly Bird, who finds himself in possession of superpowers – telekinesis and the ability to fly – it wittily delineates youth and pop culture. Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Take Vince Staples, who one writer called a “happy nihilist”, and who wittily addresses this emptiness. 'Numb the pain with the money': how hip-hop turned nihilistic 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “He does everything with those drums except play them,” he remarked of Tony, rather wittily. My Obsession With the Necks, the Greatest Trio on Earth 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In fact, the threat was of lessons in elocution, but we – wittily, we thought – renamed them. How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z But there is also comedy: the physical vanity and obsession with rank of Sir Walter Elliot are wittily satirised, as they are contrasted with his tenant Admiral Croft’s weather-beaten good nature. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Thus, the tone strongly echoes the earlier films, and the animated line drawings based on Kinney’s illustrations still wittily punctuate the action. Review | Fourth ‘Wimpy Kid’ film mixes fitful laughs with frequent groans 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z "This wittily angled shot of an ordinary domestic garden vegetable crop transforms it into a magical, exotic and seductive landscape." Mouth-watering photos from foodie heaven - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z There are works from feminist artists including the collective Guerrilla Girls, who have been wittily challenging the male-dominated artistic canon since the 1980s. British Museum show charts American art from 1960s to Trump 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Viking Raiders by Anne Civardi and James Graham-Campbell Despite the title, this wittily illustrated book introduces children to the Norse as more than just Viking raiders: they are also farmers, hunters, traders, explorers and settlers. Top 10 books about the Vikings 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z As cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg wittily explains in “Language at the Speed of Sight,” those assumptions may seem plausible, but the science of reading has shown to be false. Opinion | Want to read fast and well? Ignore the rules of the speed-reading gurus 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Yeah, when Hogan shoots it,” I said wittily. Dan Jenkins Savors His Moments With Arnold - Golf Digest 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Becker also mentions an unpublished novel about “wittily drawn characters marooned in a roadside motel in a remote coastal community during a fierce storm.” ‘Looking for Betty MacDonald’ finds comedy and tragedy 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z In this wittily illustrated, accessible volume, Rachel Ignotofsky highlights 50 women who changed the course of science. Books Every Geek Should Read This Fall 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Research and analytical skills, an ability to write informatively, succinctly and wittily, and insatiable curiosity are essential. Job opening 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Its ruler, King Abdullah, wittily describes Jordan as being stuck “between Iraq and a hard place”. Peace, bread and work 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z They chatter wittily and robustly about all these horrors. A millennial and a baby boomer trade places: ‘I can’t help but feel a stab of envy’ 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z They assembled more than 20 people and created an editorial team dedicated to creating top-quality, wittily written, fact-checked coverage. Progressive Jewish groups make New York Times parody issue to protest newspaper’s “biased Israel-Palestine coverage” 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z At first, the filmmakers seem to be wittily illustrating Michael’s own narcissism, with everyone who’s not him taking on the same generic blandness. ‘Anomalisa’ contemplates desire, love and loneliness, by way of puppets 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Many of us have a passing acquaintance with Caesar’s successors in the Julio-Claudian line: the ruthless, power-amassing Augustus, the paranoid Tiberius, the wittily cruel Caligula, the freakish Claudius, the showboating Nero. Roman tyrants in all their brutal glory 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Look for it on Google now, and you will find it wittily transposed into various images — Edvard Munch’s “Scream,” a split-screen panel on the “Hannity” show, a still from “Jaws.” Stephen Curry’s Mouth Guard: An Investigation 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “Into the Woods” wittily mashes up a number of fairy tales - “Jack and the Beanstalk,” ”Cinderella,” ”Little Red Riding Hood” and “Rapunzel” - and adds characters of its own. Heather Headley to play the Witch in ‘Into the Woods’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Thus, Harari wittily describes the Agricultural Revolution as “history’s biggest fraud.” Our kind of people 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z During the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, the show about official Washington was “The West Wing,” a romanticized version of this town, with politicians who banter wittily and speak freely. Again, a blue dress casts a shadow on Bill Clinton 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It ended in divorce and a courtroom confrontation — wittily recreated on the screen — but the film goes back to their first meeting. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Selma,’ ‘Into the Woods,’ ‘Unbroken’ and ‘Annie’ 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z They create a gorgeous environment, wittily overripe with feminine touches. Peerless, fearless Blanchett in ‘The Maids’ Research shows that while people don’t like complainers, they do like humorous complainers — those who manage to vent wittily about bad weather or a terrible customer service experience. April Fools Day Is No Joke 2014-04-01T04:30:13Z They had an eight-page newsletter that they wittily called the “Mac Street Journal.” The Most Prolific Technology Critic In The World Cannot Say No 2013-07-01T14:53:00Z The name was intended to wittily refer to the television chef’s adoption of a healthier approach to Southern cooking in light of her own diabetes. On Religion: A Chef Appeals to a Legacy of Black Forgiveness 2013-06-28T16:06:39Z Ellen sets up the news about Finding Dory so wittily that it's almost difficult to believe that it isn't a day-late April Fool's joke. Viral Video Chart: Finding Dory, April Fools' jokes, sea lion disco dances 2013-04-05T05:57:33Z The music at Greenwich is wittily chosen, with Blur's Parklife and the Rolling Stones's Wild Horses especially amusing. London 2012: She's the one – Zara Phillips shines in Olympic debut 2012-07-29T11:50:17Z Supporters, including a number of feminist writers, described it both as a wittily shot image and a tasteful nude. Are these the most offensive ads of all time? 2012-05-30T00:23:37Z Maitland, by the evidence of his own reading, saw the injustice of this, and said wittily, that "by the dark ages were meant the ages about which we are in the dark." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Some one has wittily suggested that the coat of arms of the present age is "an interrogation-point rampant, above three bishops dormant, and the motto 'Query.'" One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z This attitude was neatly, and wittily, captured in a cartoon by Paul Noth in The New Yorker a few weeks ago. City Room: Deciding Foreign Policy in the Aisles of the Co-op 2012-03-29T13:19:22Z Thank God, no such treasonable design can be inferred from this gimcrack and gingerbread, as you wittily term it. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z Technique for technique's sake is no longer a desideratum; furthermore, as Felix Leifels wittily remarked: "No one plays the piano badly"; just as no one acts Hamlet disreputably. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Hazlitt has wittily said: "His works have been translated into French; they ought to be translated into English." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Essences and forms were produced, as the “intelligibilia” of “real” knowledge, till, as some one has wittily put it, “universals became almost palpable.” Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z The starter of game terrine with celeriac, hazelnut remoulade salad and cranberry jam was enjoyable and wittily presented. London Restaurants Lure With Enticing Lunch Menus: Richard Vines 2012-02-13T20:30:54Z "It has been wittily observed that for a man to start farming because——" But there the adverb began to worry me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z Whistler discoursed wittily, waspishly, but he wasn't knee-high to a grasshopper when confronted with Wilde. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He wittily mocks his victims over their sentimentality. Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage 2012-02-03T01:36:08Z While they wrangled wittily for the honour, Richard went quietly indoors and presently emerged with the painted chicken-skin, just as Lovelace was preparing to ascend the steps. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Interesting episodes succeed each other and the frothy and clever dialogue of the fashionable butterflies of the New York smart set is wittily flippant and amusing. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z It was favourably reviewed in several papers, and cut into mincemeat by a very clever weekly journal, so wittily, that even a youthful author could only laugh! Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z I think it was Georges Sand who wittily said, "The flirt is a woman who signs a bill with the firm intention of not honouring her signature." Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z The skit continues wittily enough, but it is not necessary to quote more of it. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The Encyclop�dia Britannica is against it, and suggests, wittily enough, that one can hardly agree with Browning that Heracles got drunk for the purpose of keeping up other people's spirits. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z These songs are generally topical, and almost always extempore: and as most Spaniards can—or rather are anxious to—one enjoys many verses that are very prettily as well as wittily conceived. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z As well as indicating Hamlet’s own mental instability, it wittily suggests a younger performer in Oedipal conflict with a great father-figure of actors. Hamlet Faces Down Noisy Cellphone in London Staging: Review 2011-11-14T02:54:13Z At one table sits Mr. Insipid, foppling and fluttering, spinning his whirligig, or playing with his fingers, as gayly and wittily as any Frenchified coxcomb brandishes his cane or rattles his snuff-box. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z That the gift of composing beautiful verse and the ability to write gracefully and wittily in prose does not of necessity enable an author to produce good fiction, is a truism that requires no elaboration. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Tyler's portraiture of Paine in London, though somewhat adapted to prejudices anent "The Age of Reason," is graphic, and Paine's anti-democratic paradox wittily described. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z This disagreeable malady, wittily personified as "Ague-agueshakershake,"—the God of Lake Erie—was a continual bugbear and made yearly attacks upon the families. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z "I was responsible for so many illnesses," says she wittily, "for all those who did not dare to confess that they feared to embroil themselves with the Court, feigned maladies or accidents in extraordinary numbers." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z To give a notion of his talents in two words, he could have written Zadig as wittily as Voltaire; he could have thought out the Dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates as powerfully as Montesquieu. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The same may be said of "The Sphinx without a Secret," and "The Canterville Ghost," whereas the "Model Millionaire" is simply a pretty story wittily told. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Professor Raleigh has wittily applied to him the confession of Dr. Johnson’s friend, “I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.” Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z “Thus,” Mr. Field says wittily, “the townsmen were frozen out of the tavern to be frozen in the meeting-house.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Like all accomplished raconteurs, he must needs tell his good stories over and over, so that Rogers's butler, it was wittily said, was next best to Rogers. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z This it was which made Brantôme so wittily speak of that Pope as an "uncle in Our Lady." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z It has been wittily said of him, that he came at last to believe that he was the Roman Empire, or, at all events, something equally majestic and imposing. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z The flower of tolerance did not often lift up its head in the frigid air of what some one has wittily styled the "ice age" of New England history. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z "Not bad," said Sell�n, "it might have been expressed more wittily." The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z It has been wittily observed by an Italian writer, Signor Corrado Ricci, that children in their drawings reverse the order of natural creation by beginning instead of ending with man. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z She wittily but firmly emphasized that her backers would “get cool stuff.” The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter 2011-08-05T15:38:30Z It was answered briefly, wittily and correctly by Fontenelle; and the answer was neglected, and half a dozen learned but impossible theories have since come in and out of fashion. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z Charmingly spoken; it is impossible to praise more wittily what one blames, or better to praise in the very act of blaming. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was wittily done, by the delicate instrumentality of chosen implication, and it never missed the mark: the arrow quivered in Poppy every time. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The author wittily adds, "What the devil was this imbecile solicitous about?" History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z And healths were drunk and speeches very wittily were said, And those who had no speech to make, they drank the wine instead. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Moreover, he could write as well as talk wittily, as is evident from the caustic and sometimes mordant humour which characterises many of his letters. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Concerning the historian Gibbon’s habitual pomp of expression, it was once wittily said that nobody could possibly tell the truth in such a style as that. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z One man wittily characterized them as "the hats that wore corsets." The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z He wittily ridiculed established abuses, and keenly satirized venerable absurdities. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z To which the Cables of the Brooklyn Bridge wittily replied that while they sympathized with Findlayson, they didn’t believe he really knew what strain was. The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z "True; as Quevedo says wittily, 'Ever since there has been so great a demand for type, there has been much less lead to spare for cannon-balls.'" The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z He died an old bachelor, saying, wittily, that no woman would take him. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z With such admirable Judges as these, Sir Isaac Newton's Discourse of Fluxions is very witty, as the Machine called the Orrery was said to be very wittily contrived. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z She joked wittily about silent meals, about the parties at Alsheim that finished at nine o'clock, the rare visits, and the importance of an invitation received from Strasburg. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z Then one of the girls kissed him; and all at once he began to converse freely and most wittily. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z As a French writer wittily observed, the chariot of State in Spain is fashioned of tortoise-shell and drawn by snails. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Mr. George Augustus Sala once said very wittily that the French papers bear the date of to-morrow and the news of yesterday. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z And somewhere beneath the humor and the modesty Mr. Sondheim must surely know that for admirers of musical theater, truly no name sings more lyrically – also sardonically, and wisely, and wittily – than his. Theater Talkback: A New Marquee 2010-09-16T16:47:00Z Like the “Daily Show” this parody delivers wittily framed absurdities in a sweetly deadpan way. Books of The Times: No. 1 Planet for Alien Tourists 2010-09-16T05:33:00Z Würth wittily arranged the lions' tails to form the cooler's handles. Meant to Be Not Only Used but 'Read' 2010-05-07T21:36:00Z In the old comment system, however, it was easy to use a different signature or “handle” for every comment, and one person used this extensively and wittily. Monday Puzzle: Thank You, John 2010-04-19T17:27:00Z "I do not care," says I, rather wittily, "how seldom it enter your head, Margery, so long as it engage your heart." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Some one had wittily said that no member of the Cabinet should be allowed to cast his vote for the war, until he had read Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic." A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us, as the late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, once wittily remarked. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced He doesn't ask for sympathy, either; if he did, I couldn't pity him—and get jeered at wittily for my pains! The Book of Susan A Novel Most of what he says about woman is true enough, and wittily expressed.'—Times. Her Royal Highness Woman Chapuys wittily observed that the clergy were thus being made of less account than cordwainers, who could at least enact their own statutes. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII Another chorus of questions demanded the explanation, and Colonel Burr responded by telling over Don Pedro's account in the form of a wittily brilliant anecdote. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois In this letter, written in 1771, Mistress Winslow treats the matter jocularly and even wittily; but it was a grave enough affair, that of the "heddus," to the average dame of the day. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) They forget, as one has wittily remarked, that if the Lord does not need man’s learning, still less does He need man’s ignorance. The Religious Life of London Their versification is smooth, and they generally scan accurately: the ideas are expressed pithily, at times epigrammatically and wittily. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series Tell an ordinary Englishman, it has been wittily said, that it is a question whether the planets are inhabited, and he feels bound at once to have a confident opinion on the point. Logic, Inductive and Deductive It is evident he was a great favourite of the author, and it is evident he was united with the chivalric spirits he so wittily ridicules. Life of John Keats Professor Masson wittily tells us that as Goldsmith had planned to go to Paris, of course he arrived in the end at Leyden. Oliver Goldsmith Whereas formerly they had been accustomed to hear her give vent to silly, pert remarks, they now heard her express herself sensibly and very wittily. Old-Time Stories Lord Chancellor Thurlow used to describe him wittily as "the knave of clubs." Old and New London Volume I For though, as he wittily observes, he is still much older than I am, it is conceivable that I enjoy a wider æsthetic experience. Pot-Boilers As John Jay Chapman wittily wrote: "He patiently lived on cold pie, and tramped the earth in triumph." Ivory Apes and Peacocks It was to one of these I was directed: a thing coarsely and wittily handled, mostly with the palette-knife; the colour in some parts excellent, the canvas in others loaded with mere clay. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) A list recently used, and very wittily selected, is given for suggestion: Name the Geologist's cake. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Dirt itself, as Lord Palmerston so wittily said, is nothing but "matter out of place." Pedagogics as a System No one who read Mr. Arlen's first book, A London Venture, or his delightful short stories, A Romantic Lady, needs to be told that he writes wittily and well. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings The Provisional Government has very wisely and wittily devised, as a means of raising money, to lay a tax of six hundred francs a year upon everybody who keeps more than one servant! Records of Later Life He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 As the well-known critic, Santayana, wittily says, "To most people music is a drowsy revery relieved by nervous thrills." Music: An Art and a Language Wait a bit, till they were all back in the saloon, and then hear how wittily they would depict the manners of the steerage. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Ingersoll wittily says, of the combined influence of softening of the brain and ossification of the heart. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures He commenced a mischievous travestie of a poem, but though it was wittily done, its lightness jarred so terribly on both reader and listener that it was speedily thrown aside. A Noble Woman The music is full of melody—"quite killing," as a young lady wittily observed, on noticing that the name of the Composer was Slaughter. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 Indeed, it is a hundred years since Fisher Ames, ridiculing the theory that climate acts directly upon literary products, said wittily of Greece: "The figs are as fine as ever, but where are the Pindars?" The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Jesus wittily describes the Pharisee filtering out drowned gnats from the drinking water, but bolting some camel of a sin without blinking. The Social Principles of Jesus As some one has wittily said of the ballet-girl's costume, it begins too late and leaves off too early. Aztec Land Sitting in his easy chair and smoking his long pipe, he talked frankly and often wittily with the many who came to visit him. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark During occasional short pauses in Fullbil's remarks, gentlemen passed ecstatic comments one to another.—"Ah, this is indeed a mental feast!"—"Did ye ever hear him talk more wittily?" The O'Ruddy A Romance Father Pesch wittily disposes of such reasoning as follows: “The will of Adam before the fall was not a crooked shinbone, but it was absolutely straight, and became crooked through physical premotion.” Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise Sir Henry reminded her of the Duc d'Almaviva, and she thought wittily that the type had taken refuge in the theatre, there perhaps to die. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists The Germans, as a Frenchman wittily remarked, are born with the mania of annexation. England and Germany "It is rather old," its sponsor acknowledged wittily, and the pair went clattering on. The Innocent Adventuress It may be by unkind words; it may be by an intentional rudeness; it may be by neglect; it may be by a criticism spoken secretly, slyly, circulated wittily, laughed at, but not forgotten. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story A witty writer on Japan has aptly and wittily remarked that “an Englishman’s house may be his castle, a Japanese’s house is his bedroom and his bedroom is a passage.” The Empire of the East In appearance, at least, Doctor Ox had agreed to light the town, which had much need of it, "especially at night," as Commissary Passauf wittily said. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories And he often made his expressions very wittily agreeable to the circumstances which he saw the persons in. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I Thomas Fuller has wittily said, 'Adventure not all thy learning in one bottom, but divide it between thy memory and thy note-books. . . . . The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature He must be able to converse wittily and with apt repartee. Lafayette At these suppers, kings, ministers, chancellors, ladies of the court, were all passed in review, discussed, abused; everything might be said, everything told, everything done; provided only that it were wittily said, told, or done. The Regent's Daughter Clavering looked at her gravely with something in his eyes that puzzled Miss Schuyler, who had expected a wittily graceful speech. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter “There p. 111must be a snake in the grass somewhere,” it was wittily remarked, “for the Jesuits were never so excited when only the glory of God was at stake.” Pascal Mr. Washburne replied wittily, reading and commenting on extracts from a work by Cox, in which the latter deplored the existence of the prejudice against the Africans. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Mehronay started a mythical Widowers' Protective Foot-racing Society, and the town had great sport with the old boys whose names he used so wittily that it transcended impudence. In Our Town The error was exported from England, and upon it they reasoned, logically and oftentimes wittily. My Recollections of Lord Byron An ambassador has been wittily described as an honest man sent to "lie" abroad for the commonwealth. The Secret Witness It was wittily said at a later day that "Mr. Grenville lost America because he read the American despatches, which none of his predecessors ever did." History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 Some one said wittily,—I think it was Mrs. Howe,—"Man carves his destiny; woman is helped to hers." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Their weapons be arrows, and at handstrokes not swords but pole-axes; and engines for war they devise and invent wondrous wittily. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Undaunted by this failure, which Sheridan wittily called nibbling at the French rind, Pitt sought to utilize the Russian force withdrawn from Holland for the projected blow at Brest. William Pitt and the Great War Hamilton had a sister who wrote wittily and charmingly every week, and there was another girl ... Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Of piano pieces there are a sprightly "Birthday Impromptu" and a fuga giocosa, which deals wittily with that theme known generally by the words "Over the Fence Is Out!" Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Phil. here referred to is the Philoleutheros Anglicanus of the essay on 'Protestantism,' as shortened by De Quincey, and with whom De Quincey, in that essay, deals very effectively and wittily on occasion. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 He was a courtier and traveler; and, if tradition speaks truly, a poet who could praise his mistress's many charms, or wittily resent her caprices, in well-turned verse. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance On the philanthropist repeating this at a dinner party, one of his guests, de Lageard, wittily remarked: "I should like to know who was Chancellor of the Exchequer to Attila." William Pitt and the Great War Apropos of this, Aristippus on one occasion rebuked an empty-headed parent neatly and wittily. Plutarch's Morals The objections that English readers will make to his books are to be traced to no aberrations of his, but to those of the society whose follies he so ably and wittily depicts. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 She is a very observant lady, and converses wittily about what she observes.' The Bishop's Secret “Ah!” exclaimed the Abbot, who was occupied with an amusement which comes naturally to men of his disposition, and has been wittily denned as “washing one’s hands with invisible soap, in imperceptible water.” Mistress Margery The company gathered eagerly round, expecting I would retaliate wittily, or pay him back in his coin of abuse. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Concerning the historian Gibbon's habitual pomp of expression, it was once wittily said that nobody could possibly tell the truth in such a style as that. Classic French Course in English The Pasha of Marrakesh expressed the hope that Lord Northsquith was not disappointed with the Morocco Atlas, and the illustrious stranger wittily rejoined, "No, but you should see my new morocco-bound Times Atlas." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed. Early Theories of Translation His speech had relation to an Army Reform Bill, and it was a mosaic of the aptest and most wittily applied literary quotations. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Then he saw himself talking over the hedge, wittily, to amiable and witty persons in the garden of the Orgreaves. Clayhanger Not unlike those archers of whom the Talmud wittily says, they first shoot the arrow and then fix the target, nations ascribe to 80themselves purposes of which they were originally unconscious. Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 It was wittily said by Lord Chesterfield of the old Duke of Newcastle—"His Grace loses an hour in the morning, and is looking for it all the rest of the day." How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Here is a sentence of Warburton’s that, I think, is very wittily expressed: though why I put it in here is not very discoverable. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 And the Swiss naturalist Bonnet said wittily, apropos of a wonder of this sort, "that sometimes it was difficult to distinguish a cat from a rosebush." Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers They have become, as Sheridan wittily said, like the blank page between the Old and the New Testament. Historical and Political Essays An opponent wittily characterized it as Government by diagram, accurately drawn on an Executive blackboard. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 As Brandes wittily observes: "People who talk like that do not torture their enemy to death; they backbite him." Essays on Scandinavian Literature Whereupon Fisher Ames, one of the great men of the day, wittily remarked to a bachelor colleague, "Behold now the advantage of having a wife— God preserve us all from gunpowder!" Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective She began a lively conversation with Prince Riquet, and chattered so fast and so wittily, that he began to be afraid he had given her so much cleverness as to leave himself none. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Apollo was gone, Mrs. Senter doubtless sitting by Sir Lionel's side as usual, and probably commenting wittily on my silly conduct. Set in Silver Jean Paul has wittily said of the providential distribution of the earth that the land was assigned to the French, the sea to the English, and the air to the Germans. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology As a Danish critic wittily observed: "Björnson's language is but one step removed from pantomime." Essays on Scandinavian Literature And Sir Thomas Overbury wittily said about a dolt who took credit for the merits of his ancestors: "Like the Potato, all that was good about him was underground." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure This mode of writing, as Dr. William Russell wittily observed to me the other day at Versailles, was much like smoking in the dark—and it must be my excuse for any inaccuracies or repetitions. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Hugh Gibson, secretary of the American Legation, wittily described this gentleman as the "representative of a country without a government to a government without a country." History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Boëthius, Rabelais, Erasmus, Bruno, are only brisk young men translating into the vernacular wittily his good things. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A like judgment was expressed more wittily by the people, who erected a monument to Adrian's physician and labeled it, "Liberatori Patriae." The Age of the Reformation The postman who sat mounting guard over the netted window at the rear smiled wittily at the popular error which made him for a few brief moments so conspicuous a figure. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties One of these displays the beasts in Nineveh, and a little squat monkey, developing into a devil, is wittily characterized by Ruskin as reversing the Darwinian theory. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance This duty of silence, as has been wittily remarked, Carlyle preaches in thirty-seven volumes of eloquent English speech. Among Famous Books Lord Chesterfield thus wittily satirized that famous measure:— 'The people of this town are, at present, in great consternation upon a report they have heard from London, which, if true, they think will ruin them. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 While the popes were enjoying their jus incorrigibilitatis—as Luther wittily expressed it—the church was going to rack and ruin. The Age of the Reformation "Love," says Sir Thomas Overbury, wittily, "is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made." The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future Talleyrand said wittily when some one called Marmont a traitor, "his watch only went a little faster than the others." The History of Napoleon Buonaparte She knew how to say nasty things herself, and as she said them wittily they were usually listened to and repeated. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" I could not but notice, however, that we were attracting much attention; by reason, I assumed, of our striking similarity; and a number of times Moore replied wittily to some pleasant banter flung at us. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.—H.W. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age "What's the use of my working; father did enough of that for our family," wittily said one of these young men. The Young Man and the World He was perfectly composed, laughed and chatted as wittily as ever. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life I shall give Mr. Haye a hint —that he had better not send you here another summer," said Rose wittily; — "there is no telling what anybody will care for. Hills of the Shatemuc Erasmus wittily said, Luther committed two unpardonable sins: he touched the pope's crown and the monks' bellies. Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties The bishops themselves did not disdain to attend 'incognito;' curtained seats were placed immediately inside the door, where the prelates were smuggled in; and this was wittily called 'Nicodemus's corner.' The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Of Sir Robert Peel it was wittily said that when Chief Secretary he went through the country on an outside car, which made him take a one-sided view of the Irish question. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent But Zeus laughed aloud at the sight of his evil-witted child, so well and wittily he pled denial about the kine. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological "Why: that was very wittily done!" he said. Oddsfish! O for Paris, where, lightly and wittily, she could humble this man! The Grey Cloak He was perfectly willing to talk, when the humor seized him, and he did talk, brilliantly, wittily, freely, and impersonally. A Woman Named Smith As a general thing they were violinists who had failed—'the refugees of the G clef,' as Edouard Colonne, the eminent conductor, once wittily said. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Mr. M. wittily said soul was the perspiration of matter. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch For it hath been wittily if not wickedly said by a popular writer in another place that James was in all things like unto Solomon, save in the matter of women. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 She hath answered wittily, and cunningly, but yet sufficient for the Cognisance of the Court: Confesseth a Fame of Incontinence against her and Howard; but saith, it was raised by her Husband's Kindred. The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century The two pretty assistants come in and look at her with loving eyes; we all cluster around while she wittily recounts her recent lecturing experience. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years And how wittily true, by the way, how slily significant, was both the Norse and the Greek conception of the ruling destinies of man, the Norns and the Fates, as women! Prose Fancies It was Oliver Johnson who wittily remarked that not more than one or two of the original twelve, "could have put a hundred dollars into the treasury without bankrupting themselves." William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist As was wittily said at the time, He sold his principles, not for a mess of pottage, but for the stick that stirred the mess.” Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) Temple Street takes its name from the old summer arbour, wittily called "the Temple," which once stood in a garden where now Temple Row joins the street. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically He who has joined it may have the ambition to write wittily or well. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Bound in extra cloth, stamped in black and gold, printed with red line borders, wittily written, valuable to all who would speak their mother tongue with accuracy. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading Let me tell thee how wittily one did mock the shallowness of this sort of arrogance. The Consolation of Philosophy As was wittily said at the time, he sold his principles, not for a mess of pottage, but for the stick that stirred the mess. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) Pius IX. summed up the situation wittily in the remark: 'Lately we were two here; now we are three.' The Liberation of Italy But the Apothegm that Romulus very wittily made Use of, shews plainly that he was no Wine-Drinker. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. And, above all, a sense of parody pierced through words and actions, commenting wittily on the nonsense of romance which so many were so willing to take seriously. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory "Ah! if you knew how little it cares! it is a matter of no importance," replied M——, very wittily. Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) This—er, what shall I call him?—stopped me to tell me he was going to rub the marks off me, at the same time wittily making a pun on my name. Ted Strong's Motor Car He wittily calls her "the widow of sound learning," and again, "a constellation of pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a clownish incivility that would tax the patience of Job." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 In the society in which Madame de Sévigné lived, people made a point of speaking wittily. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Goldsmith said to him, very wittily and very justly, "If you were to write a fable about little fishes, doctor, you would make the little fishes talk like whales." The Bed-Book of Happiness He wittily described himself as "an Irish potato seasoned with Attic salt." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature In such a case, then, the lady having received a bite, 'twas allowable in her wittily to return it. The Decameron, Volume II They have just been pulling our legs very wittily. Back to Methuselah It was wittily said of a well-known anti-slavery leader, that had he lived in the Middle Ages he would have gone to the stake for a principle, under a misapprehension as to the facts. Daniel Webster The King said, wittily enough, "Lambert and Molière will be there." Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici Here the theme is wittily inverted in the bass, while other strings sing another version above. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies For the rest, he was as really cultivated and pleasing a pagan as one may find, and so wittily ironical he might have been mistaken for a Frenchman. The Purple Heights There came over her face, after any one had spoken wittily in her presence, a reflective smile of singular grace. The Man Who Laughs He was the man whom Dr. Cox wittily described as "An angel vinculated between two Apostles." Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography The declaration that his headquarters would be his saddle, which Lee so wittily turned, saying, "then his headquarters would be where his hindquarters ought to be," Pope declares he never made. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe I never heard any one speak more fluently or so wittily as he. Practical Exercises in English He was thinking of ladies in velvet dresses and diamonds, who could talk wittily of pictures and theatres and books, who could amuse him and distract him. Fenwick's Career It is said, that when twitted with having written a better panegyric on Cromwell than a congratulation to Charles II., he wittily replied, "You should remember that poets succeed better in fiction than in truth." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham The ladies of the Grandissime mansion this morning asked passengers' questions, got sailors' answers, retorted wittily and more or less satirically, and laughed often, feeling their constrained insignificance. The Grandissimes "If only you always manifest it as prettily and as wittily as you did today." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He would wittily say it wasn't Christian and wasn't science; merely the chuckleheadedness of a lot of women. The Wrong Twin Ray wittily observes that an obscure and prolix author may not improperly be compared to a Cuttle-fish, since he may be said to hide himself under his own ink. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. When Biagio complained, Paul wittily answered that, had it been Purgatory, he might have helped him, but in Hell is no redemption. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts There was "the Singing Cobbler," whose wife complained of him in court, and he defended himself so wittily in verse, that everybody sided with him, and his wife forgave his offence, whatever it might be. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss An English artist, showing it to a friend, just arrived in Rome, remarked very wittily that it was the statue of Jew-Peter. Views a-foot The audience laughed at his discomfiture, but he turned it off wittily. Bambi The band was just starting the "Boulanger March," and Mr. Moffat was saying wittily that it was warm enough to eat ice, when Mr. Hefty Burke shouldered in between him and Miss Casey. Van Bibber and Others It was wittily said by Lord Chesterfield of the old Duke of Newcastle—“His Grace loses an hour in the morning, and is looking for it all the rest of the day.” Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance How wittily would he mistake your meaning, and put in a conceit most seasonably out of season. Intentions His real position in the matter was once well and wittily described by his partner, Enos M. Barton, who said: "Of all the men who DIDN'T invent the telephone, Gray was the nearest." The History of the Telephone It has wittily been remarked that only mediocrity is ever wholly original. Ponkapog Papers For saith Pliny, very wittily, In commending another, you do yourself right; for he that you commend, is either superior to you in that you commend, or inferior. The Essays of Francis Bacon They alternated between silence and the coarsest, crudest quarrelings, for neither had the intelligence to quarrel wittily or the refinement to quarrel artistically. The Price She Paid He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming? Memories and Portraits He saw himself grandly accepting her; permitting her to be very tender; wittily, but with a touch of magnificence, restraining her from too much humility…. The Highwayman Their better feelings towards Germany had been bombarded out of them, as an Alsacienne wittily observed to the Duchess of Baden after the surrender. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" This title was wittily given by an editor of this city to the ideal woman demanded in "Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. He used to tease the companions of Marie Louise wittily, and without malice; he would take an interest in their dresses, and often give them bits of good advice in the gentlest manner. The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise They studied the manners of the second Empire and depicted them wittily; they studied the social questions which agitated educated minds at this time and drew useful inspiration. Initiation into Literature How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!… Among My Books First Series One tub filled, we switched the stream wittily to the next. The Enormous Room How should poor Smith see anything in the picture except what Mr. Whistler wittily calls "rather a foolish sunset"? Modern Painting Björnson, genially and wittily, took this up at once, and begged him to put his photography into the form of a comedy. Henrik Ibsen This performance was perhaps more wittily broad than anything which had gone before. The History of David Grieve "To be sure," said Tomlinson; "and you very wittily called her a hop- pole!" Paul Clifford — Volume 06 Oh, that is a second-hand compliment," she said disdainfully—"a weak plagiarism on what I conveyed very wittily. The Fighting Chance The wise king once wittily said: "My people are like bad children that kick the shins of their nurse whenever their faces are washed." Castilian Days The consequence of Prince Florestan's attempt to put in practice democratic principles where nobody wanted them was wittily and ingeniously thought out, and the tone of subdued irony admirably kept up. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 He told me he required cash from all who bought his chairs; that there was no agreement, no insurance—no "frills," as he wittily called them. On Something Charles Reade chaffs the doctors very wittily in "Hard Cash" on their penchant for the word "hyperaesthesia," but nothing else exactly defines that exaggeration of nervous sensibility which I have invariably seen in opium-eaters. The Opium Habit It had occurred to her, too, that her simile might invite elaboration, and she sensed the laugh in his silence, and liked him for remaining silent where he might easily have been wittily otherwise. The Fighting Chance "And one make twelve!" shouted the Doctor, wittily, but just too late, for no one saw the point of his interruption. Swann's Way He introduced into Tragedy the cool and close observation of Comedy; in Emilia Galotti the passions are rather acutely and wittily characterized than eloquently expressed. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The King listened with great interest, and expressed himself most wittily on the subject. True Story of My Life When Dr. Samuel Johnson tried to write a drama, he made all his little fishes talk like whales, as Goldsmith wittily remarked. Halleck's New English Literature Then to the others, brightening again, he said a word or two, wittily, with a gay compliment well placed and a phrase to end it in good taste. The Fighting Chance He wittily says that Young America is rampant, parental influence couchant; and no reversal of these positions is as yet visible in 1892. Children's Rights A book of nursery logic This invention of introducing spectators on the stage, who contribute to the entertainment, has been very wittily used by later English poets. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature How easy is it," he observes, "to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! A Voyage to the Moon She could be wittily gay; but there was plenty of brain power behind the clever mot, as immensities are at the source of the sun-ray. Memories of Hawthorne This was wittily called the Kangaroo ticket, because the tail was the most important part. The Life of Abraham Lincoln The enchanting mothers usually consoled themselves with great ease, and, if the party of each part was occasionally wittily pungent in her comments on the other, everybody laughed and nobody had time to criticize. The Head of the House of Coombe Thou hast studied some small revenge on me for doubting of thy truth; and, in verity, I think thou hast taken it wittily enough. The Betrothed Franklin wittily said, "Howe has not taken Philadelphia so much as Philadelphia has taken Howe." A Brief History of the United States Lord Bolingbroke, returning from exile, met the bishop at the sea-side; upon which it was wittily remarked that they were "exchanged." Biographical Essays For deep down in our hearts lurks the belief that, as Jerome wittily puts it, "God created the world to give the literary man something to write about!" Without Prejudice To be laughed at so wittily was a new sensation. The Eve of the French Revolution As Prince Napoleon—familiarly known as Plon-Plon—very wittily remarked later, "One can do anything with bayonets, except sit upon them." Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 Madame de Sevigne would wittily say they possessed but an evanescent colour. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Hence, proceeds," said Eumolpus, interrupting 'em, "that veneration I pay the divine Epicurus, who so wittily has discovered such illusions. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter A poor puppy with an empty can tied to his tail, Thomas Carlyle wittily observes, ran and ran on, frightened by the noise of the can. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan The "will to deceive," the "will to make-believe," were wittily proposed as substitutes for it. Pragmatism "Oh, don't halve it!" rejoined the other wittily, "he's the whole thing anyway!" Ardath Mr. M. wittily said, soul was the perspiration of matter. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Chopin never romps, but he jests wittily, and always in supremely good taste. Chopin : the Man and His Music This brings me, Sir, to the alteration you offer in the personage of Mrs. Winter, whom you wittily propose -to turn into a mermaid. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 In the Pilgrim's Progress itself, the unreality of the spirits of fear, their secrecy and leniency, is very firmly and wittily told. Where No Fear Was When the Academy pressed its complaint to the very throne to prevent the acceptance of the play, the King replied wittily that he claimed no right in the matter beyond his place in the parterre. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X He was talking very wittily and charmingly about murder, about proscriptions, the good informers do, the utility of the headsman, the majesty of the law. Imperial Purple It has been more wittily than charitably said that Hell is paved with good intentions: they have their place in Heaven also. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society What the Spectator said wittily, ought to be practised in sober sadness by old folks: when he was dull, he declared it was by design. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 As it has been wittily observed, the outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken She received the two gentlemen, therefore, with great cordiality, and laughed heartily over the adventure of the morning; she recounted to them, merrily and wittily, how and why she had thrown the sweet roses away. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends "It can keep," as Mr. Bright wittily said with regard to a subject of similar urgency. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas For instance, not long ago a lieutenant writes to a friend describing a ball very wittily.—Splendid! The Inspector-General It will not puzzle him to eat his way out suitably and wittily. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso For being my Home Secretary, as he very wittily called it. John Bull's Other Island A humorous reply appeared in the February number of the Bulletins de la Societe Geographique of Geneva, which very wittily showed up the Royal Society of London and their phenomenal sturgeon. Five Weeks in a Balloon She had learned to speak French very prettily, and to express herself skilfully and wittily in German, and under her royal master, the crown prince Frederick William, gained much valuable scientific knowledge. Old Fritz and the New Era It is better, as our friend Attilius once very wittily and very truly said, to have no occupation than to be occupied with nothingness. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. The American Claimant As to Selicius's villa, you have managed the business carefully and written most wittily. Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero The ladies, as Father de Berey wittily remarked, preferred private confession to public preaching; and long speeches, without inlets for reply, were the eighth mortal sin which no lady would forgive. The Golden Dog Juvenal has railed more wittily than Horace has rallied. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, finished phrases of general interest. War and Peace But young people carried away by their own wit don't think of that 'when they overstep all obstacles,' as you wittily and cleverly expressed it yesterday. Crime and Punishment De Graffigny wittily said that it "escaped from the hands of Nature when there had entered into its composition only air and fire." The Women of the French Salons Yesterday Louis Bonaparte complained about it to the Prince de la Moskowa, remarking wittily: "They want to make of me a Prince Albert of the Republic." The Memoirs of Victor Hugo How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry Conversation has become a chorus; or, as a writer wittily expressed it, the pursuit of the obvious to no conclusion. Tea-Table Talk And as for our legal tradition, as you so wittily called it, I thoroughly agree with you. Crime and Punishment To talk wittily and well, or to lead others to talk wittily and well, was the crowning gift of these women. The Women of the French Salons Her principle fault has been wittily defined by Mr. Henry James, who has remarked that in affairs of the heart George Sand never "behaved like a gentleman." Mauprat "As you do at the grain of sand in the eye," he answered wittily. From the Memoirs of a Minister of France To give a notion of his talents in a few words, he could have written Zadig as wittily as Voltaire; he could have thought out the dialogue between Sylla and Eucrates as powerfully as Montesquieu. Louis Lambert Men of this type fail in tact with imperturbable coolness, talk folly wittily, distrust good with extreme shrewdness, and take incredible pains to fall into traps. The Chouans "The Carmelites!" replied Antonia, wittily; "no, my old fellow, we don't retire to the Carmelites unless we leave a king." The Deputy of Arcis Where life ends," he says, very wittily, "Art begins. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring There was a great laugh at this, and the Queen said, very wittily, that as neither of the claimants could prove a right to the ring it must revert to the judge. From the Memoirs of a Minister of France She talked to him wittily of the Avonlea people and the changes in their old set. Chronicles of Avonlea The society of the Duc de Verneuil, to which he introduced me, was bitten by that scoffing philosophy about which all France was then enthusiastic because it was wittily professed. The Chouans "I'm not so sure of that," said the prince wittily. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola And where does Martin Eden and the work Martin Eden performed come in in all this? he asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast. Martin Eden It was to one of these I was directed; a thing coarsely and wittily handled, mostly with the palette-knife, the colour in some parts excellent, the canvas in others loaded with mere clay. The Wrecker |
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